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Author:
Title: The Charge of J[ustice] P[age] to the Grand Jury of M[iddlesex],
on Saturday May 22, 1736
Publisher: London, 1737.
Description: An artful and well-deserved satire of Sir Francis Page, known as
'the hanging judge' by his contemporaries, singled out in
universal disapproval by Pope both in the 'Dunciad' and his
'Imitations of Horace', by Henry Fielding, and by Dr. Johnson
Condition: Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, attractive
Book No.: W-55117 Price: $ 650.00
Category: justices of peace, humor, Grand Jury Charges

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Author: Sloss, Peter F.
Title: Alice's Adventures in Jurisprudencia. Illustrated by Sally
Richardson
Publisher: Borogove Press, Belvedere, 1982.
Description: A must for any Lewis Carroll fan, and indeed anyone else wondering
what it would be like if Humpty Dumpty were Chief Justice, written
by the San Francisco lawyer said by a colleague to be "the most
creative and brightest attorney I ever worked with"
Condition: Original printed wraps, illustrated, 87 pages, as new, the
remainder of the unsold copies purchased by us directly from the
author, Peter Sloss, in 1998
Book No.: W-63644 Price: $ 20.00
Category: humor, Law and Literature

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Author:
Title: The Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, M.A.: A Cento of Criticism.
High Court of Common Sense. Special Jury Case. Trinity Sessions,
1823
Publisher: E. Brain, London, 1823.
Description: A battered ex-library copy, without the title, plate, and half-
title, but textually complete in 96 pages, recording the satirical
mock trial; with a number of informed pencil notations throughout
Condition:
Book No.: W-91709 Price: $ 65.00
Category: humor, Religion, trials

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Author:
Title: The Modern Law List and Weekly Gazette of Politics and Literature,
Comprehending the Professions, the Stage, Sketches of Public
Characters, Varieties, Together with a Picture of the English Bar,
and of the Courts of Law and Equity in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Printed and Published by N. Teucher . . . No. 25, Fleet Street,
London, 1828.
Description: A rare issue of the short-lived gallimaufry bordering on the
scurrilous, lampooning the law, with much verse ("Law, An
Epitaphic Satire" as one example) and remarks by and about Burke,
Byron, Napoleon, and the stage; no copy in COPAC, one in OCLC
Condition: Original ?self-wraps, disbound, re-sewn and repaired, lightly
browned, but a good copy; Vol I. No. V, pages 65-80
Book No.: W-74951 Price: $ 250.00
Category: humor, Law and Literature

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Author: Roebuck, Derek
Title: A Miscellany of Disputes
Publisher: Holo Books, Oxford, 2000.
Description: Represented as "the first anthology of stories about disputes
resolved without the aid of litigation", full of humor and wisdom,
and venturing as far afield as Ancient Greece, Rome, China, and
medieval England, with a touch of Chaucer and Shakespeare
Condition: Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
Book No.: W-71575 Price: $ 45.00
Category: arbitration, humor

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Author:
Title: Some Observations Upon the Late Tryals of Sir George Wakeman,
Corker and Marshal . . . By Tom Tickle-foot the Taborer, late
Clerk to Justice Clodpate [etc.]. Wing S4540
Publisher: Printed for A. Brewster [F. Smith], London, 1679.
Description: A sensationally-phrased but amazingly perceptive contemporary
analysis of the Popish Plot, written just after the acquittal of
George Wakeman and others had swung the balance against Oates,
supposedly written by a former clerk to an imaginary judge
Condition: Modern calf, some light browning, else quite a good copy
Book No.: W-66724 Price: $ 650.00
Category: humor, trials

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Author: Brome, Alexander
Title: The Record of a Famous Action upon the Case. In Rythme. Wherein
Priscilla Morecrave, Widow, was the Plaintiff, and Roger Pricklove
was the Defendant. Being An Essay towards the Reformation of the
Law [etc.]. Folio
Publisher: Printed for J. Roberts at the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane, London,
1727.
Description: The rare reissue of Brome's satire humorously skewering in verse
the Commonwealth's dictate that English be used in the law courts,
here appearing some seventy years later, as again legal
proceedings were proposed to be (and finally were) in English
Condition: Modern boards, somewhat rubbed, else clean with ample margins and
with the Fairfax of Cameron bookplate, six copies in ESTC, 12
pages; the Taussig copy
Book No.: W-78296 Price: $ 1250.00
Category: humor, Poetry, legal reform

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Author: Darrow, Clarence
Title: Farmington. Second Printing (September 1926) of This Edition. Not
in Hunsberger
Publisher: Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926.
Description: A rare printing of Darrow's first novel, one of his earliest
works, the semi-autobiographical account of his own childhood,
"told with incisive delicious humor" and said to have been the
book of which he was prouder than any other; one copy in OCLC
Condition: Original cloth backed boards, gilt lettered, an especially well
preserved copy in an unclipped, very slightly chipped dustjacket
Book No.: W-79643 Price: $ 150.00
Category: biography, Law and Literature, Radicals

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Author: Wellman, Francis L.
Title: The Art of Cross-Examination. Fourth Edition [First Printing]
Revised and Enlarged
Publisher: Macmillan and Company, New York, 1936.
Description: Final edition of Wellman's first book, to become a classic account
of trial technique, first treating of cross examination's
principles and then giving famous examples, "bright with humor and
sombre with tragedy" in Emory Buckner's words
Condition: Original cloth, the spine rubbed and faded, former owner's blind
stamp, sound; with a photocopy of Emory Buckner's review of the
third edition laid in
Book No.: W-79688 Price: $ 65.00
Category: trials

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